Reports583 results
Finding a Balance: Review of 3 Newly Approved Balancer Governance Proposals
With LPs competing for a scarce weekly resource of 145,000 BAL per week, naturally we are seeing attempts at gaming of the system to maximize farming ROI....
2 Min
AMM
Jul 2020
$MTA Listing On Mesa
DeFi. Stablecoins. Liquidity mining. These are possibly the three most dominant narratives surrounding crypto in the first half of 2020. mStable, a project undergoing its Initial DEX Offering tomorrow...
4 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
$MTA Listing On Mesa
DeFi. Stablecoins. Liquidity mining. These are possibly the three most dominant narratives surrounding crypto in the first half of 2020. mStable, a project undergoing its Initial DEX Offering tomorrow...
4 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
The Incoming Stimulus "Cliff"
Another round of fiscal stimulus is all but guaranteed but how far will policymakers go in their attempt to pave over the gaping hole in the economy and what will their impact be on asset prices?...
8 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
$AMPL -  The Not So Stable Stablecoin
Since June 23rd, AMPL has traded above its price threshold of $1.06 and never looked back. Let's dive into why....
6 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
$AMPL -  The Not So Stable Stablecoin
Since June 23rd, AMPL has traded above its price threshold of $1.06 and never looked back. Let's dive into why....
6 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
King Dollar: Network Effects & Safe Havens (Inst. Crypto - Part II)
Political responses to the coronavirus outbreak have exposed just how deeply-rooted today’s “Dollar Standard” is and the potential consequences of such a dominant world reserve currency....
Asset Management
Jul 2020
KNC's Katalyst
We first wrote about this change back in early December of last year. With the market anticipating this update for months, the price of KNC has been on an absolute tear YTD rising 785%....
2 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
Grab A Slice of DeFi with PieDAO
PieDAO is an interesting project which combines DAOs and DeFi to create a new way to manage and create crypto index funds....
5 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
Curve: Hypergrowth Stablecoin Exchange
Volume on Curve has picked up, in part due to yield farming activities....
6 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
Bitcoin vs. Stocks: The Great Decoupling
We have been asked to weigh in on the “great decoupling” debate quite a bit recently, so here’s some quick thoughts on the evolving relationship between BTC and the performance of risk assets....
4 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
Yield Farming Recap
For today’s Daily, let’s take a quick look at the impact of yield farming and liquidity mining on DeFi protocols over the past couple of weeks....
3 Min
DeFi
Jun 2020
The Institutional Argument for Crypto (Part I)
An update to our popular series focused on making the argument for traditional money managers to look at crypto....
Asset Management
Jun 2020
Another Protocol for Yield Farmers - Enter mStable
Our past Daily’s on Balancer and Compound highlight the memetic power of “yield farming” and “liquidity mining” within the defi ecosystem. mStable, a stablecoin liquidity and lending protocol, is anot...
4 Min
Stablecoins
Jun 2020
Compound: Community Now, Cashflows Later
Compound is a decentralized lending middleman: anyone can deposit ETH, DAI, USDC or other assets and earn interest as they are lended out to users on the other end....
5 Min
Lending / Borrowing
Jun 2020
Growth In Stablecoins Is Anything But Stable
Maker is the largest decentralized finance application on Ethereum, with $524M in ETH locked to back ~$120M worth of Dai, a decentralized stablecoin used within the DeFi ecosystem for payments, value...
3 Min
DeFi
Jun 2020
Reserve & Celo - Part 2
[pdf-embedder url=”https://storage.googleapis.com/members-portal-bucket/uploads/2020/07/Research-Report-Reserve-Celo-Part-2-5-31-2020.pdf” title=”Research Report – Reserve & Celo – Part 2 – 5 31 2...
1 Min
DeFi
May 2020
Aave Continues To Innovate
While our team has covered flash loans before, we haven’t discussed Aave in detail yet. London based Aave is a non-custodial protocol that lets users either earn interest on deposits or borrow digital...
4 Min
Lending / Borrowing
May 2020